By Doug Cunningham

 Staten Island tugboat strikers say the Kosnac company’s demand for fewer men on the boats isn’t safe. ILA Local 333 President Bill Harrigan says a worker was killed on a tugboat in December.

 [Harrigan]: “He got caught between the capstan and the rope and he crushed himself to death. You really need two people, but he was workin’ by himself.”

 Striker James Beatty.

[Beatty]: “It’s not something I wanna do, it’s tough, But it’s better than goin’ on a boat workin’ with four guys and takin’ a chance of losin’ my life, so.”